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Delaney Myers: Bus and Coach Association CEO on why Kiwi bus drivers who moved to Sydney are walking away · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: Ever do for c Ellen.
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  Speaker 2: Eighteen past five Now, Apparently some Kiwi bus drivers recruited
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  Speaker 2: to work in Australia are regretting the move. Apparently the
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  Speaker 2: contracts are onnerous, the work is stressful, and the New
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  Speaker 2: South Wales government says nine out of ten new drivers
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  Speaker 2: leave the industry within six months. Delaney Meyer is the
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  Speaker 2: CEO of the Bus and Coach Association. Hey Delaney, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: good evening. Hither are you hearing this?
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  Speaker 3: I am hearing this. People come here, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Look, I mean the Kiwi drivers are in
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  Speaker 3: a attractive target for recruitment from over in Sydney because
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  Speaker 3: you know, any New Zealand resident can work in Australia.
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  Speaker 3: So if you can recruit a pre train driver, paying
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  Speaker 3: a sign on bonus and some airfares is a pretty
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  Speaker 3: cost fiqui of way to go.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what is going on with the contracts? Do we
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  Speaker 2: run contracts like this? Apparently over there if you quit
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  Speaker 2: within six months you got to pay ten thousand dollar
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  Speaker 2: back to the company. If you quit within a year
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  Speaker 2: you have to pay five thousand dollars back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it does sound a bit tough, doesn't it. And look,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's important that we don't sort of dive
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  Speaker 3: too much into you what's reported to be sitting in
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  Speaker 3: different contracts, and different employers will have different things sitting
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  Speaker 3: within contracts. But certainly it's a pretty unfortunate situation these
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  Speaker 3: drivers have found themselves done.
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  Speaker 2: Does your answer makes me suspicious that we're doing this
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  Speaker 2: in New Zealand too?
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  Speaker 3: Are we actually? Either I couldn't tell you if we
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  Speaker 3: were doing that or not. I haven't looked at the contracts.
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  Speaker 2: One of the guys who quit over there said it
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  Speaker 2: was really stressful, like the job was more stressful there
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  Speaker 2: than here. Why would that be?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Look, you know, if you look at Sydney,
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  Speaker 3: I mean it is a beautiful Liverpool city, but there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of key wes across multiple industries of finding out.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the sand might be whiter, but the grass
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  Speaker 3: might not be greener. And you know, it's a city
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  Speaker 3: with big city problems and social problems that drivers are
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  Speaker 3: dealing with every day. And as you've noticed, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the New South Wales government, I could say that nine
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  Speaker 3: out of ten new drivers are leaving the industry within
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  Speaker 3: six months, so clearly there's some pre significant on the
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  Speaker 3: job problems.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Delaney, thank you very much. As good to talk
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  Speaker 2: to you mate. This Delaney Meyers Bus and Coach Association CEO.
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